Environmental Science in the News – Information Literacy
The online news article I chose for environmental science is, http://www.psmag.com/environment/childrens-books-increasingly-ignore-natural-world-39391/. The specific topic it pertains to is production because the quality of production is said to be changing. The article Children Books Increasingly Ignore Natural World is a summary of the changes that have taken place since the times when books were filled with natural-like pictures and stories.
This is a reliable information source. Tom Jacobs is a staff writer and a veteran journalist at daily newspapers. He has worked as a staff writer for Santa Barbara News-Press and The Los Angeles Daily News and other reliable News. Pacific Standard runs the site and last updated it in 2013. The credentials make the information not so reliable because it is not run by a "org" corporation. The mission of this site is to attract viewers and share the most current information. One claim made by the article is that, "A group of researchers led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist J. Allen Williams Jr. studied the winners of the American Library Association’s prestigious Caldecott Medal between 1938 (the year the prize was first awarded) through 2008". There is sufficient evidence provided to support this claim because the name and the place is shared. There are no logical fallacies made because everything makes sense and has statistics. My reaction to this article is interest and concern because I have never realized that books don't involve nature too often.
This is a reliable information source. Tom Jacobs is a staff writer and a veteran journalist at daily newspapers. He has worked as a staff writer for Santa Barbara News-Press and The Los Angeles Daily News and other reliable News. Pacific Standard runs the site and last updated it in 2013. The credentials make the information not so reliable because it is not run by a "org" corporation. The mission of this site is to attract viewers and share the most current information. One claim made by the article is that, "A group of researchers led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist J. Allen Williams Jr. studied the winners of the American Library Association’s prestigious Caldecott Medal between 1938 (the year the prize was first awarded) through 2008". There is sufficient evidence provided to support this claim because the name and the place is shared. There are no logical fallacies made because everything makes sense and has statistics. My reaction to this article is interest and concern because I have never realized that books don't involve nature too often.
References:
Jacobs, Tom. "Children's Books Increasingly Ignore Natural World." Pacific Standard. N.p., 30 Jan. 2012. Web. 13 Sept. 2013.
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